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  2. Silphium terebinthinaceum - Wikipedia

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    Native bees nest beneath or within these plants or use elements of the plants for their nests. [3] Consequently, they are thought to be an important species for attracting bees for pollination in the area. [3] Prairie dock is one of the few species that successfully persists on land that has been converted from prairie to railway. [5]

  3. Asclepias sullivantii - Wikipedia

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    The native habitat of the plant includes prairie and meadows. [2] It grows in moist areas, such as river bottomland. [1] The original range of Asclepias sullivantii was the tall grass prairie, but very little of that habitat remains because of wide spread conversion to farming. [4]

  4. Pulsatilla nuttalliana - Wikipedia

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    Pulsatilla nuttalliana, known as American pasqueflower, prairie pasqueflower, prairie crocus, or simply pasqueflower, is a flowering plant native to much of North America, from the western side of Lake Michigan, to northern Canada in the Northwest Territories, south to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. [3]

  5. Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie State Natural Area - Wikipedia

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    Black Earth Rettenmund Prairie is a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-designated State Natural Area featuring one of the few remaining dry-mesic prairies in Wisconsin, situated on a low Driftless Area knob and ridge. Despite the prairie's relatively small size, 130 native prairie plant species have been documented on the site.

  6. Ratibida columnifera - Wikipedia

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    Prairie coneflower is valued by gardeners for xeriscaping and native plant gardens for its color and rich fragrance. Grown in garden settings plants are often biennial, growing the first year and dying after blooming in the second year. [12] The prairie coneflower requires dry to medium soil moisture and rarely has serious disease or pest problems.

  7. Bouteloua dactyloides - Wikipedia

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    Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a short grass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie.

  8. Pediomelum esculentum - Wikipedia

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    Pediomelum esculentum, synonym Psoralea esculenta, [2] common name prairie turnip or timpsula, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America, which bears a starchy tuberous root edible as a root vegetable.

  9. University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum - Wikipedia

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    More than 300 species of native plants that once dominated the landscape of southern Wisconsin have been restored to the arboretum's prairies and savannas.. Curtis Prairie (60 acres (24 ha)) – described as the world's oldest restored prairie; a tallgrass prairie with big bluestem grass and Indian grass.